DARE Interview : St. Helena, California; Primary Informant CA098

Fieldworker

Lee, Mary

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• CA098: White; female; age: 88 (old); education: high school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CA098 (3:43)
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0115-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Father Altamira comes from San Francisco mission to found another mission, brings mission grapes
• 06:20 Wine becomes commercial enterprise in 1850s, European vines imported
• 09:20 Italians come to grow vines on hillsides. Now development is encroaching on vineyards
• 12:55 Missions try to "civilize" Indians; Informant talks about friend's artifact collection and founding of a museum
• 18:20 Origin of her own Indian artifact collection
• 20:15 Where she got her cat
• 23:05 Beauty of her community and fear of development
• 27:30 Preservation of the past—laws to inhibit land sale, taking over an old mill to preserve it
• 32:35 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0115-S2).
• Content:
• 00:20 Mill that she runs as a museum repaired by county and by donations; describes caretaker and his family who live there
• 04:05 Oldest house in valley, interest in local history; her family moving West
• 08:35 Arthur the Rat
• 12:15 Tape end